Catt, William, & Sons

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  • Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products

Notes:

Established by three corn merchants in c1768 as a substantial tide mill - known as Bishopstone Tidemills - to supply mostly London with flour via the coastal trade. Acquired by he Catt family in 1790s and they - Edmund and William increased the five pairs of millstones to 16 pairs. By 1826 traded as William Catt & Sons. Catt family sold mill to Newhaven Harbour Co in 1879 and leased it back. Closed c1883 and subsequently demolished

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